Hazlan Zakaria, The Ant Daily PKR has proudly declared all too often that it is pushing for a more transparent and accountable national governance. However, when it comes to its own internal…

Justin Ong, The Malay Mail Online On Wednesday, S. Deepa’s joy of winning custody of her two children from estranged husband Izwan Abdullah, a Muslim convert, just days earlier turned to terror…

Zurairi AR, The Malay Mail Online If our founding fathers were still alive, they would be mortified with how Islam — which they anointed as the religion of the federation — is being used as a…

And from that day I became a pariah in the eyes of the Pakatan Rakyat supporters. The issue they raise is that I had ‘turned away’ from Pakatan Rakyat. I think it is more like Pakatan Rakyat that…

FMT LETTER: From Syed Izzaddin Jaafar, via e-mail The sleepy kampung of Memali in Baling, Kedah entered into the public consciousness all bloody and frayed 29 years ago. Fourteen men, deviants…

The sale of more than 400ha to a private concern looks like it involves a sweetheart deal to benefit MB Khalid CT Ali, Free Malaysia Today For the past three decades, with Umno consolidating…

The latest court order is needed to uphold the situation but the IGP and police force washed their hands. Saravanan We are shocked to see the reaction of the IGP who is not upholding the…

Considering the almost spiritual hold that Anwar has on PKR, whichever of the three dreams captures the minds of PKR members and takes control, it is still the dream of the de facto leader that…

The postponement of the sending off ceremony of the pandas can been viewed in diplomatic fraternity as a "snub". Mohsin Abdullah, fz.com WHEN Chinese national Gao Huayun was kidnapped in…

Azly Rahman A good philosophical movie ‘Noah’ is; classic arguments between Fate and Free Will, juxtaposed with the Epic of Gilgamesh I am currently discussing. Now I know how Noah looks like.…

Norman Fernandez Lim Kit Siang today said that DAP is prepared to give a kindergarten course in politics to MCA President Liow Tiong Lai and his deputy Wee Ka Siong, who have riled up DAP by asking…

Oh, by the way, the Tunku died almost penniless and the government actually sued him for unpaid taxes, which would have made him the first bankrupt Prime Minister in Malaysian history. You see,…

We could do with some of our politicians emulating the political beliefs of the late Tony Benn, who was a strong advocate of ‘nationalisation’. Zaid Ibrahim, The Star ANTHONY Wedgwood Benn,…

Kee Thuan Chye So stupid! Think can bluff the people ah? The other day I read the Gahmen said it gave a contract to Konsortium Prohawk Sdn Bhd to build and maintain the Kuala Lumpur Women and…

Tunku Abidin Muhriz, The Malay Mail Online The prime minister’s comments supporting economic liberalisation in Asean at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ National Colloquium on Malaysia’s…

Dina Zaman, The Malay Mail Online The recent passing of activist Irene Fernandez was greeted with great sadness not just by activists but also the communities she worked with. “She did good,”…

Rashvinjeet S. Bedi, The Star Datuk Saifuddin Nasution Ismail could not resist but deliver an off-the-cuff “history lesson” during a recent event to announce his electoral pact with Rafizi…

Salleh Said Keruak BARU-BARU ini, sementara menunggu penerbangan ke Kuala Lumpur di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kota Kinabalu (KKIA),  saya terjumpa YAB Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim dan YB Nurul…

I forecast that by 2029 both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat would no longer exist. Both would have imploded or disintegrated by then. The Constitutional Monarchy would still exist but it…

Praba Ganesan, The Malay Mail Online “So are you trying to hurt your old party?” The quick lesson here is, if you are being recorded for a radio show, not to allow an old friend to be the…

The roots of extremism today, however, can be traced to ideas that began to appear in the eighteenth century in Arabia. The founder of Wahhabism, a particular orientation within Salafism, Muhammad…

It has always prided itself for that multiracial look.  Mohsin Abdullah, fz.com I REMEMBER reading a campaign flyer for the 1999 general election which said the BN is "forced" to combine…

Karpal Singh MCA deputy president, Datuk Dr. Wee Ka Siong, should not throw idle challenges requiring non-Muslim MPs in the DAP to state their stand on the private members bill proposed by PAS…

I believe Lee Kuan Yew is a brilliant politician and strategist. He first used the Communists and then he used Malaysia to gain independence from Britain. He then rounded up all the Communists and…

(MM) - “Service” as a word must have been mistranslated by Dewan Bahasa. I mean where else do you know, where if you complain about poor service, you are likely to get “If you don't like it, go…

Jeyaseelen Anthony, The Malaysian Insider  Karpal Singh’s conviction for sedition recently has thrown Malaysia back into the days of the Court of Star Chambers in the 17th century where people…

Salleh Said Keruak Lim Kit Siang said that Parliament should close down the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCom) since after spending RM300 million it is powerless to improve security in the…

I think I will just sit back and enjoy the show. It is so satisfying to be proven right. With Umno, PAS and the Malays in PKR, united in support of Hudud, and DAP, the non-Malays in PKR, MCA, MIC,…

The MH370 crisis has exposed the weaknesses of our public institutions and political leadership as nothing before it has done Narinder Singh, FMT The MH370 crisis will go down in history as…

Zaid Ibrahim When former New Straits Times top dog Datuk Abdul Kadir Jasin described Dato’ Seri Najib Razak as “the Prime Minister with the worst performance in a general election since the May…